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43-487: Llanharan ( Welsh pronunciation ) is a village and community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf , Wales. As a community Llanharan takes in the neighbouring settlements of Bryncae, Brynna , Llanilid , Peterston-super-Montem and Ynysmaerdy . Llanharan thrived during the British Industrial Revolution , with several tin and coal mines in the location providing employment to
86-620: A coal mining company founded by Thomas Powell in the 19th century in the South Wales coalfield . After Thomas Powell's death in 1863 the company operated as the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company having been amalgamated into the business of Sir George Elliot . During the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the company expanded its mining activities, also acquiring shipping firm Stephenson Clarke in 1928. After number of colliery acquisitions and
129-554: A Rugby Football team, Llanharan Rugby Football Club , who play in the Welsh Rugby Union Championship Division. The club formed in 1891 and was awarded membership to the WRU in 1919. Llanharan RFC play in black shirts and shorts with three light blue horizontal hoops across the chest. Their nickname, the "Black and Blues", is taken from their colours. Their home ground is named The Dairyfield, and there
172-550: A capital of £500,000. Powell died 24 March 1863. In 1867 the company acquired the Aberaman Estate from iron master Crawshay Bailey , the land of which held much good quality 'steam coal'. By the 1900s the company had begun generating electricity and utilising it in mining. In 1916, E.M Hann was made a director of the company. After the First World War he drove the development of the company, acquiring all
215-553: A merger with the Welsh Associated Collieries in 1935 it became Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries In 1947 the main coal mining division of the business was nationalised into the National Coal Board . The remainder of the company diversified, mainly into shipping and engineering, and acquired the ports of Tees and Hartlepool in the 1990s. Restructuring in the late 1990s/early 2000s resulted in
258-542: A number of explosions in the 1850s. In 1858 Powell cut wages by 15% resulting in strikes which were met with strike breaking methods; Strikebreaker labour was introduced from England. By 1862 Powell controlled 16 mines, which exported more than 700,000 tons of coal. Shortly before his death he arranged the merger of his business interests with those of Sir George Elliott , forming the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company Ltd in 1863 with
301-465: A total workforce of 4,200; the engineering division had higher turnover, but lower profit than the port business. The Hamworthy Bellis & Morcom compressor division (see Belliss & Morcom ) was sold to Gardner Denver Inc. of the United States for £26 million. The company's maritime and port businesses was rebranded in 2003 as PD Ports, Logistics and Shipping (PDPLS). In 2004
344-452: A unit of Nikko Cordial Corp. of Japan, with shareholders accepting 570p per share, a valuation of £507 million. In the late 1990s/early 2000s the company was restructured; selling multiple business interests; after acquisition in 2000 the company's engineering interests were Hamworthy KSE (marine engineering), Hamworthy Belliss and Morcom (compressors), Hamworthy Combustion, and Geesink (waste disposal equipment), representing 2500 of
387-664: Is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales . Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England but, unlike English parishes, communities cover the whole of Wales. There are 878 communities in Wales. Until 1974 Wales was divided into civil parishes . These were abolished by section 20 (6) of the Local Government Act 1972 , and replaced by communities by section 27 of
430-610: Is also another pitch available at The Llanharan Recreation Ground Trust (Welfare Ground) which is currently used for The Mini and Junior Rugby Teams. Group matches for the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup were played at The Dairyfield. As of the 2009 season, The Dairy Field in Llanharan has been the home field of the South Wales Warriors American Football team. As of 2022 the Warriors play in
473-605: Is now based in Coity near Bridgend . Llanharan House is a Grade II listed building. The local parish church is the Church of St Julius and Aaron whose interior was redesigned in its present form by neo-gothic architect John Prichard around 1856, with work completed by 1859. The restoration work was financed by the Jenkins family of Llanharan House. Llanharan Town square consists of several historical stone buildings situated by
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#1732794543753516-555: The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 and the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 . Powell Duffryn PD Ports is a Middlesbrough , UK headquartered port , shipping and logistics company; owner of Teesport , and ports at Hartlepool , Howden and Keadby ; with additional operations at the Port of Felixstowe , Port of Immingham , and Port of Hull . Formerly known as Powell Duffryn , it traces its origins to
559-640: The River Severn and canal system, and later by the railways; and by the high quality of the Welsh coal. Removal of a coal export tax in the 1830s allowed Powell to more widely export the coal, and compete for the market in northern England. The company's first deep mine was sunk at Cwmbach , Aberdare in 1840, opening further mines in both Aberdare and the Rhymney Valley in the following decades. Together with Thomas Prothero and John Latch he formed
602-557: The 1930s. The Powell Duffryn Company restarted the sinking of the original steam coal seams abandoned in the early 1880s in 1922. This was named the Llanharan Colliery and consisted of two pits, Llanharan North and South pits which in 1945 employed a total of 855 and 775 men respectively. Output form the colliery was at its highest in the early and mid-1950s, producing over 234,000 tons of coal in 1952. From 1959 production began to fall sharply, and in 1962 Llanharan Colliery
645-538: The British Industrial Revolution , Llanharan was a small agricultural village, and this was reflected in the 1851 census where a population of 330 people living in 62 buildings was recorded. In 1850 the South Wales Railway had opened a station in Llanharan making it a strategic location for surrounding industries. Later employment came from the nearby iron mines in Llanharry and Pontyclun . Towards
688-632: The Cambrian Wagon Works, adding an engineering arm to the business. During the Second World War the companies' engineering subsidiary expanded in order to fulfill military orders. The 12 colliery Cory Brothers & Co. Ltd was acquired in 1942, forming Powell Duffryn Ltd. . In 1946 the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 led to the formation of the National Coal Board , which took over
731-479: The Crown . In Wales, all town councils are community councils. There are now three communities with city status: Bangor , St Asaph and St Davids . The chair of a town council or city council will usually have the title mayor (Welsh: maer ). However, not every community has a council. In communities with populations too small to sustain a full community council, community meetings may be established. The communities in
774-550: The Llanharan Recreation Ground, Managed by a board of trustees. Colonel Blandy-Jenkins's wife kept the house until 1953. Llanharan house has a strong historical connection with fox hunting . This Welsh pack was named The Llanharan and was established by Richard Hoare Jenkins in 1805, though the pack was renamed the Llangeinor during the period when Mr John Blandy Jenkins was the squire. The Llangeinor
817-587: The Meiros Colliery. The Meiros was listed in 1888 as owned by the Llanharan Welsh Estate of Cardiff; employing 228 men. The Meiros shaft was 200 yards deep and it mined the No. 3 seam (Rhondda). Meiros Collieries Ltd took over the colliery in 1913, and in 1915 the colliery underwent considerable modernisation. At its peak in 1923, the colliery was employing 622 men. The Meiros Colliery closed in
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903-705: The Rhymney Iron Company, the Windsor Colliery, collieries from Lewis Morthyr, the Great Western Colliery Company and the Nantgawr Colliery; all acquired in the 1920s. In 1935, Powell Duffryn merged with the Welsh Associated Collieries, who owned 34 collieries, and formed the joint venture company Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries , which had an output of 20 million tons p.a. The merged company included
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#1732794543753946-788: The SFC 1 West conference of the British American Football Association National Leagues , the primary American Football adult contact league of the United Kingdom . Llanharan Football Club are currently in Saturday and Sunday Leagues, their home pitch is at Llanharan Recreation Ground. Llanharan were League Winners in 2020. It is thought that the breed of dog, the Welsh Springer Spaniel , either found its origins or
989-480: The adjoining collieries (Aberaman, Lletysiencyn, Abernant, Gadlys and Blaengwawr), succeeding in sinking every one of the company's collieries in the Aberdare Valley to the lowest seam. The company started a joint venture in the shipping industry with Stephenson and Clarke in 1920, later acquiring their partners outright by 1928. The company expanded by acquisition of land and construction of pits, including
1032-772: The community boundaries within their area every fifteen years. The councils propose changes to the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales , which prepares a report and makes recommendations to the Welsh Government . If the Welsh Government accepts the recommendations, then it implements them using a statutory instrument . For example, in 2016 four new communities were created in the City and County of Cardiff . The legislation surrounding community councils in Wales has been amended significantly in
1075-619: The community of Llanharan, they are Ysgol Dolau Primary School which is a bilingual school teaching through the medium of Welsh and English and also Llanharan Primary School. Both are Green flag award school's. Llanharan is served by many buses and also Llanharan railway station , which reopened in December 2007 after 43 years of closure. The main road running through Llanharan is the A473 Bridgend Road, linking Bridgend to its west and Talbot Green to its east. The village hosts
1118-575: The companies coal business – after a decade of negotiation Powell Duffryn was paid £16 million for the assets. The firm diversified, expanding its former secondary interests: engineering, fuel distribution and shipping. Additional interests included timber, quarries, and brickmaking. Engineering interests included Powell Duffryn Engineering in Llantrisant and the Powell Duffryn Wagon Company . Hamworthy Engineering
1161-488: The company was sold to stockbrokers Collins Stewart for £450 million (£170 equity, £280 million debt), followed by an immediate stock market flotation. A bid by Babcock and Brown Infrastructure (BBI) at 150p per share, with total value £337 million was recommended in December 2005. In November 2009, Brookfield Asset Management acquired 100% of PD Ports. from BBI for a nominal $ 1, taking on $ 113 million of debt, as part of BBI port asset sales to reduce
1204-527: The company's debt burdens. As of 2013 PD Ports owns and operates the Ports of Tees and Hartlepool under the name Teesport . The company also operates the Hull Container Terminal at the Port of Hull , and provides stevedoring and warehousing services at the Port of Immingham ; logistics and warehousing at the Port of Felixstowe , Scunthorpe , and Billingham ; and operates a wharf on
1247-408: The end of the 19th century an additional 80 houses had been built and Llanharan had a population of over a thousand. With the discovery of coal an attempt to sink two mine shafts began between 1870 and 1873, but the work was eventually abandoned as the pit was too wet and inclined. In the early 1880s, in a different location to the first sinking attempt, the first deep mine in Llanharan was opened,
1290-499: The first South Wales coal syndicate in 1833, the "Newport Coal Association". From the 1830s Powell began assembling his own shipping fleet, and also invested £20,000 in the Taff Vale Railway . By the 1840s Powell's mining interests were the amongst the world's largest coal producers. Powell's Duffryn was one of Thomas Powell's companies (Dyffrn meaning literally "Valley"). Powell's mine conditions were poor, leading to
1333-534: The late 18th century as by Thomas Powell who had inherited the family business at the age of 14 on his father's death – in 1810 Powell acquired land in Llanhilleth and began coal mining. Powell expanded his coal business, opening several collieries in the Newport area – by 1830 Powell's business had become successful – aided by the increasing demand for coal in steam engines ; good transport connections via
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1376-525: The local river the Ewenny Fach. Llanharan town square is dominated by a public house called The High Corner which dates back to roughly 1700. Outside the High Corner is an original red telephone box which was adopted by Llanharan Community Council in 2017. The adoption secured this iconic piece of British history. Work is ongoing to renovate the box which now is home to a defibrillator. Prior to
1419-409: The most difficult of his civic duties. Around 1800 some major improvements were made to the house with the addition of a three-storey circular stair hall which includes a dramatic geometrical staircase. Following the death of Hoare Jenkins in 1856 the house and the estate was passed to a Colonel John Blandy-Jenkins. Following his death in 1915 bequeathed land to be held for recreational use only, known as
1462-518: The outskirts of Llanharan, overlooking the village, sits Llanharan House . It was built in 1750 by Rees Powell and stayed with the Powell family until 1795 upon which it was purchased by Richard Hoare Jenkins. Hoare Jenkins was a High Sheriff of Glamorgan and he was involved in the suppression of the Merthyr Rising of 1831, and is recorded as stating he found the execution of Dic Penderyn as
1505-478: The sale of engineering businesses and a focus on port operations. The company was acquired in 2000 by Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd., a unit of Nikko Cordial Corp. of Japan. In 2003 the company re-branded as PD Ports . In 2005 the company was acquired by infrastructure division of Babcock & Brown , and then sold to Brookfield Asset Management in 2009. The business started in Newport , Wales in
1548-487: The same Act. The principal areas of Wales are divided entirely into communities. Unlike in England, where unparished areas exist, no part of Wales is outside a community, even in urban areas . Most, but not all, communities are administered by community councils , which are equivalent to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate. Welsh community councils may call themselves town councils unilaterally and may have city status granted by
1591-556: The ship engineering arm was expanded by the purchase of "Kvaerner Ships Equipment" (KSE) for £34 million from the Kvaerner shipping group. In 1992 the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority (THPA) (see Teesport and Port of Hartlepool ) was acquired by Powell Duffryn Plc, 3i , and Humberside Holdings Limited in 1992; Powell Duffryn became sole owner in 1995. The company was acquired in 2000 by Nikko Principal Investments Japan Ltd.,
1634-529: The town's residents. With the decline of heavy industry in the South Wales Coalfield , Llanharan has been in economic decline, though its proximity to the M4 motorway offers its residents easy commutable access to most of South Wales. Historically part of Glamorgan , the most recognisable features of Llanharan are its historic town square, Llanharan House and Church of St Julius and Aaron . On
1677-551: The urban areas of the cities of Cardiff , Swansea and Newport do not have community councils. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census , there were 869 communities in Wales. 84 percent, or more than 730, have a council. They vary in size from Rhayader with an area of 13,945 hectares (34,460 acres) to Cefn Fforest with an area of 64 hectares (160 acres). They ranged in population from Barry with 45,053 recorded inhabitants to Baglan Bay with no permanent residents. The twenty-two principal area councils are required to review
1720-504: The years including Llanharan's cinema, railway station (which reopened in 2007) and the library. In 2015 a new source of work came with the building of a set for the filming of the medieval drama The Bastard Executioner . In 1997 Llanharan rugby ground was used in the box office smash film Up 'n' Under which is a 1998 film adaptation of the John Godber play of the same title . There are two Primary Schools presently serving
1763-495: Was acquired in 1962. By the 1980s the company was showing good profitability; the Hanson Trust made an unsuccessful takeover attempt in 1984. From the late 1980s onwards the company disposed of its railway, shipping and bulk liquid assets: Stephenson Clarke was sold; the loss making railway engineering division was closed in 1993/4; much of the fuel distribution and storage assets were sold between 1996 and 1998. In 1998
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1806-528: Was closed down. From 1900 until the Powell Duffryn's Llanharn colliery closed in 1962, the area westward along the Bridgend Road became the commercial heart of a relatively flourishing mining village that survived even the depression years. Since the 1970s the residents of Llanharan have become more reliant on commuting to work as local employment reduces. Local amenities have also closed over
1849-789: Was historically successfully bred in Llanharan. Some breeders speak of the “Llanharan Spot”, if one describes the red point in the middle on the head of the Welsh. The Llanharan Spaniel makes up part of the Llanharan RFC club badge. Community (Wales) Heir Apparent William, Prince of Wales First Minister ( list ) Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS ( L ) Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MS ( L ) Counsel General-designate – Elisabeth Jones Chief Whip and Trefnydd – Jane Hutt MS (L) Permanent Secretary Sixth Senedd Llywydd (Presiding Officer) Elin Jones MS ( PC ) Leader of
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